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Danone SA engages in the food processing industry. The company operates through the following segments: Fresh Dairy Products, Waters, Baby Nutrition, and Medical Nutrition. The Fresh Dairy Products segment produces and markets yogurts, fermented fresh dairy products, and other specialized fresh dairy products. The Waters segment is comprised of natural waters as well as flavored and vitamin-enriched water products. The Baby Nutrition segment focuses on specialized food for infants and toddlers to complement breast-feeding. It manufactures infant formula, cereal snacks, biscuits and other food products for infants. The Medical Nutrition segment focuses mainly on patients and infants afflicted with certain illnesses and frail elderly people. Its products are designed to treat disease-related malnutrition by satisfying special food needs. The company was founded on February 2, 1899 and is headquartered in Paris, France. More »

Since earning an M.B.A. at Yale in 1995, Seth Goldman has been on the prowl for socially useful and novel business opportunities. He was a vice president at the Calvert Group, the do-gooder mutual fund family, before founding Bethesda, Md. based read »

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During research for the just-released Forbes Insights report on digital marketing, The Race is On, we had an opportunity to speak with Michael Aidan, head of digital & VP digital brand platforms at Group Danone S.A. While certain of his comments appear in the main report, below we offer an extended Q&A.

(For the first installment “The never ending milk scandal,” see here.)

Xi Jinping considering to empower the multinationals…

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